Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-25

Put them together in a stone bottle,
shaking frequently until the gums are
all dissolved, when it is ready for use.
Boiled linseed oil rubbed on with acloth
is a very good substitute for polish.
And here is another. cheap and very
useful polish andwhichw will work wond-
ers with dingy furniture: Equal parts
Of linseed oil, %turpentine. and vinegar,
well rubbed in and polished with a Pee
of chamois leather.
n STOVE PoL1sn.
Mix lampblack with waterglass "a
solution of silioate Of soda) to about the
thickness Of strip, and apply to tho
stove with a brush, giving a thin evon
coating; let it stand for twenty-four
hours to dry. Then mix graphite or
black lead with gum water and
apply evenly, after which a beautiful
and durable polish may DO obtained by
rubbing briskly with a polishing brush
in tho usual amer. Ordinary stove
polish mixed with turpentine and applied
in the usual way makes q blacker, more
glossy, and more durable polish than
when put on with any other liquid,
The turpentine prevents rust, and the
odor 0 passes off.
POLISHING POWDER. vi.
One ounce of Paris rouge [oxide of
irony and six ounces of carbonate OF
magnesia, thoroughly mixed. 1t is best
used with a small piece of soft cloth
dampened in water OF alcohol and then
rubbed. until nearly dry, the article.
afterwards being polished with chamois
skin. 1t is equally good for silver,
copper, gold, steel, iron, or tin. The
powder has a pink color and is largely
sold under different and high sounding
names. It was first suggested by the
German chemist Thomas Weigler. H."
2 81 TO CLEAN A PAPERED WALL.
Take a loaf of stale bread
rye bread is the best cut in into six
or eight pieces, and, taking a piece
begin at the top of the wall and rub
gently downward, going over the entire
wall in this way, and the paper will be
well cleaned and greatly improved. Be-
fore beginning operations use a bellows
to blow off the loose dust. If grsase
spots appear put blotting paper oyer
them, and press with a hot fatiron.
Another excellent way to clean wall
paper is to put about two quarts of
wheat bran in a coarse flannel bag and
rub the wall with it as directed. Such
an application will make thepaper look
almost like new.
How TO TANr BUTTER.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says: I worked at a place where
the milk was set in pans in n corner,
piled on the flour, n above the other.
The stove was at one side of the pans,
and at the other a place was made for
old boots and shoes, One pair of rubber
boots were particularly offensive. They
were placed with the others at times,
and whenever this was done the odor
was plainly %perceptible in the butter.
This was not 8 pleasant experime nt,
but it was remarkably forcible. There
are hundreds of kitchens where butter
is made under such circumstances.
A writer in the American Dairyman
| gives his experience: Anew weeks ago
we saw a large dairy farmer, whose
butter brings q price high above the
market, cartingout manure. The carts
went within sixty feet of the dairy, and
so they were covered with hay :caps, or
canvas covers, which enabled them to
pass and make very little smell. A gen.
tleman farmer has been furnishing a
fashionable district in this city with
really most excellent butter from his herd
of fancy COWS, the demand for the butter
was in excess OF the supply and-'the
goose hung high" Suddenly the but
ter was a way-way off. What could
the matter bep The grass fields near
the dairy had been MANFRED and the
butter had taken the odor str aight to
the tables of the city consumers. So
we live and learn, but experience is q
rough teacher sometimes. -.
HEMP AND FLAX. IgS
The large amount Of binder Irvine
used by self-binding ~harvesters has
raised the brice of hemp, and it is quite
likely that increased culture of both
hemp and flax will result. It is long
since Western New York grew much
fax. It is hard on land, and especially
SO under the old processes Of rotting
the fibre in running streams where its
valuable manurial properties were
washed away. By newly invented
processes q large amount of fibre can be
got from the stalk and the remainder
which contains much gluten, can be
used for manure. The seed is valuable
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